1 billion for teacher training in Pakistan’s Khyber Province

Pakistan’s Khyber Province - on the northwest frontier with Afghanistan – in September announced a 1 billion rupee (£23 million) teacher training programme for 83,000 school teachers, with partners the British Council to pay 30 per cent of the cost. Attacks by the Taliban on schools in the Province have included the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School Massacre.